Is farming trading cards worth it?

you can remove those games from your library after you sell the cards, so yes, its worth.

Depends. A lot of games I already play have them. The levels they give you can be helpful if you trade too. I would see how many games you have already that drop them. Also, anime games can net you .25 and up per card easily.

You can always hide the shit games so you don't see them.

I personally don't sell cards but I never understood what's up with people not wanting to have shitty games in their Steam libary (unless they dislike the developer / publisher). I mean if we were talking about retail versions which take up space and collect dust I totally get it but since it's all digital I don't really understand the problem. And this is coming from somebody who would say he has an extremly mild case of OCD but apparently not in this regard :D

Edit: Also for me Booster pack eligibility is more important than the carddrops from the game itself.

Maybe you could create another steam account for farming and have main account with good games. Although I'm not a fan of multiple accounts myself. Only got 1 =).

You can farm them and then just remove them from your library, or hide them so you still get booster packs.

edit: It's also more profitable to hide them rather than remove them completly, since you also level up from owning games, which again means more booster packs.

I will say "of course, it's worth it", because I always show only installed games in my library, so those trashy games existence doesn't really bothering me.
Sid Meier's Civilization® V: Complete Edition is one of a lot games that I bought recently for "free" by farming the trading cards, just to show how it's worth it.

Farming cards is the only reason I could even get anything during the Summer Sale. I've taken my sweet time spending it and haven't gone to pay for the picks in my cart yet until the last minute, but those pennies added up to 10.41 USD in my Steam Wallet, ALL FROM FARMING cards. If it wasn't for that I wouldn't be getting anything this Summer.

I did not even "farm" the cards for the most games I own... for me it's not worth it!

Check out the free Windows app called "IdleMaster" to automate the farming (only of the games you own, of course).

I've sold around 400 cards and got 20 GBP, totally worth it ;)

Bully: Scholarship Edition
Super Meat Boy
The Witcher 2
A Story About My Uncle
The Hat Man: Shadow Ward
Braid
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Game of the Year Edition
DARK SOULS II: Scholar of the First Sin
Mark of the Ninja: Special Edition
Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube

and 2 bundles cheaper than 1euro.

i bought the games above just with the money from farming cards for 2 weeks. My pc is almost always turned on anyways, so it is definitely worth for me. Now it is time for me to buy things with my real money :)

edit : i care about the quality of my library, i dont have free trash games except max 5 of them. i have 280 games in total. You dont have to fuck up your library. IMO bad side of farming cards is the play times of your games. It usually adds 4-5 hours, if you are a stat person, this might be a real problem.

Not in my experience. The 2-5 cards you might get from each game will be very low in worth and I get virtually no booster packs so... Not really worth it in my experience.

No don't do it

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Depends on how poor you are and/or how fond of nickels and dimes. For me, it's the latter as a result of the former. For now.

It's not worth it to get games specifically for cards. If you buy bundles(not the steam ones, the 3rd party ones) semi-regularly you'll end up with a bunch of games that drop them anyway

I've spent over £350 / $400 on the summer sale this year and it's cost me nothing, the whole sale was funded by selling my 6K trading cards xD

I don't really see the issue here. Either you already own the games, in which case you might as well get the cards since they're potential profit waiting to be converted (+ booster pack eligibility for future profit). Or you don't own the games, in which case there is no point. It's never worth buying games to farm cards. Finally, there is the option of free games with cards. Since you get the games for free and you get cards worth something greater than zero, this is always worth it.

It could be a good start on steam market operations, but after you get to know the basics, you can start to play more with the market, it's better than farming crappy games cards. First you have to look for expensive cards and check their market behaviour graph, buy them for 25-35 (or maybe more) cents less than their market value, when you get the card wait for the 7 days "cooldown" period, and later you can sell it at its "full" value.

It's a little slow and a little tricky sometimes if you do it at small scale, but if you invest some money (maybe 15-20 bucks earned from crappy games cards) and know how to operate you can get some wallet money to spend from time to time.

I bought a Steam Link and Controller with farmed cards :) all in all I have probably made about £120 through farmed cards.

Since the authentication came in prices have shot up so if you can be bothered its more profitable than ever.

I'll be the unpopular vote and say it isn't worth your time. If you invested that time in a job you would make much more money for the time put in. Unless you're really poor, can't get a job or don't have any income, you are wasting your time.

Ok let me clarify farming steam trading cards is never going to earn you any real money but if they are games you either have or part of a super cheap bundle it can be a fun way to get a few extra "free" games.

If you buy games just to farm cards for profit, then no. It takes months at best to break even, and even then, you need boosters for it. Also, it is only a viable option if you farm while you use the PC. If you have a server set up, then yes, it is a nice side-activity, but don't expect much. A one-dollar bundle may get you around $1.50 in cards, but it is rare. Card selling is nice, but only to get some money back for the games you play.